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Great paper with a list of EU regulations and directives to not affect UK anymore after the divorce. Don’t forget the recent Digital Single Market agenda will fade away too (geo-blocking, Audiovisual Media Services, E-Copyright, Digital portability)

In a moment when the future of media outlet is endangered by the cracks in the IP system, the EU is pondering whether to apply a link tax that big platforms (e.g. Google, FB and Twitter) would need to pay to newspapers.

Favoured by Italy, Spain and France and opposed by the NL and UK, this amendment to the copyright law may be a bookmark likely to set a trend in the rest of the world to incentivise a similar legal discipline of this matter.

Yet, a similar attempt has been already run in Spain, where Google closed its Google news section, readers headed directly o the newspapers’ website and the final losers were the smaller companies depending on such business model.

Similarly, Germany attempt a similar (although softer) law whose final result was that Google only showed news from that publishers agreeing to be linked for free.

Allegedly, the trend in the States is to have such policies more “approachable”. Dell’s one (since Garcia’s entry as GC), is to have it short and cover as much as possible, as well as undergoing some review a couple times per year.

If you are going to draft one in the States, watch out: the National Labor Relations struck down some of theme for being too restrictive.

That’s the Nth evidence that even without a government, a country can go on.

Under-12-y.o. children are considered particularly vulnerable, hence why commercials on channels will be banned 15 minutes before and after airing commercial programs targeted at this age from 1/1/2018.

One of the criticised effect of commercials in France is the rise of obesity and the majority of people is allegedly in favour of this new law. Watch out, this will affect both linear and VOD content.